Trainee Buyer

Advert reference: woolw_000621
Advert status: Online
- **Position Summary**

**Industry**:Wholesale & Retail Trade

**Job category**:Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain

**Location**:Cape Town

**Contract**:Fixed Term Contract

**Introduction**

Interested in fashion retail? Wonder how products are chosen? Curious about customers and their buying patterns? Skilled in relationship building and planning? If you have a fashion, retail, or interior design qualification, consider buying as your perfect role.

**Job description**
- Creative and conceptual input in design and range building
- Develop fashion ranges that are fashion-forward and in line with customer needs
- Product design and construction
- Constant product analysis
- Brief suppliers in line with design brief deliverables
- Provide buying input into planning deliverables
- Supplier negotiation
- Customer analysis
- Global and local trends analysis

NB: Your qualification will only be considered if you attach all the following documents:

- Full CV
- Copy of university academic transcript
If you are struggling to load multiple documents, please put the required attachments into 1 file/pdf and submit.

**Minimum requirements**
- Final-year student or have completed your diploma/degree in Fashion Design, Clothing Management, Textiles, or Consumer Science (creative qualification)
- Commercial Acumen
- Trading Knowledge
- Taste and Flair
- Negation skills
- Detail Orientated

**Woolworths is an equal employment opportunity company that is committed to inclusion and diversity